Truss-pad.



PATENTED DEC. 15, 1903.

I. B. SEELEY.

TRUSS PAD.

APPLIOATION FILED 00129, 1902'.

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TRUSS PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 74='7,247, datedDecember 15, 03-

Application filed October 29, 1902. Serial No. 129,247. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC BENJAMIN SEE- LEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, inthe county and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Truss-Pads, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

This invention relates to improvements in support and retention hernialpads, the object being to provide a pad adapted to the variousconstructions or patterns of herniatrusses for the requisite mechanicalsupport and designed more especially for use in the mechanical treatmentof inguinal hernia or rupture as located atthe lower abdominalbody-section.

' Another object is to so construct a pad as tolrelieve all pressure onthe spermatic vesse s.

Other objects of the invention will appear in the general description.

I will describe a truss-pad embodying my invention and then point outthe novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding in parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a plan view of a truss-pad embodying my invention. Fig. 2 isan edge View thereof, and Fig. 3 shows one side of a reversible cushionemployed.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the center or body portion ofthe pad, consisting of any suitable rigid material, and while I havehere shown it as oval in contour it is obvious that it may be otherwiseshaped. Surrounding the body portion is a ring-like cushion 2 ofyielding material-such, for instance, as soft rubber, felt, or the like.It will be noted that the hernia-support or body portion 1 projectsbeyond the plane of the cushion. As this body portion 1 presses on thehernia or rupture the cushion will hold the device from a rockingmotion. The cushion is preferably made reversiblethat is, one of itssides is smooth, as indicated in Fig. 1, and the opposite side isroughened or provided with corrugations 3. This roughened or corrugatedsurface will be found useful in many instances, as its bearing upon theflesh will cause some irritation and increase the blood circulation,thereby restoring the normal condition instead of wasting and graduallythinning the tissues involved, as is often the case when a pad of theconvex form is used.

At one edge of the smooth side the cushion is provided with anoutwardly-extending depression or channel 4, and at the other side andat the opposite end is a similar channel or depression 5, and thesechannels or depressions are designed to admit the passage of thespermatic vessels while the pad is resting against or upon the pubicbone, giving the spermatic vessels a free passage and avoiding directpressure, pinching, and grinding or obstructing the normal circulationof the vessels and organs.

It will be noted that the opposite sides of the cushion are transverselycurved; but it is obvious that they may be made fiat.

Having thus described my invention, .1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letter Patent- 1. A truss-pad having an outwardly-disposed depressionor channel at its edge to receive the spermatic vessels, thebearing-surface of the pad being unbroken or continuous around the padfrom the sides of said channel.

2. A truss-pad comprising a body portion of rigid material and asurrounding cushion portion, the said body portion being projectedbeyond the plane of the cushion, the said cushion having a transversedepression or channel extended outward from the body portion at onepoint only.

3. A truss-pad comprising a body portion and a reversible cushiontherefor, and having a single outwardly-disposed channel on each side,the said cushion being smooth. on one side and roughened on the otherside.

4. A truss-pad comprising a body portion and a reversible cushionsurrounding the same, the said cushion being smooth on one side andcorrugated on the other side, and the said cushion having transversedepressions or channels in its opposite sides the channel of one sidebeing at the opposite end to that of the other channel.

5. In a truss-pad, the combination with a body portion, of a ring-likerubber cushion 'removably en gaging around the body, the op- 2 r r i 7747,247

posite sides being transversely curved each In testimony whereof I havesigned my side of said cushion being provided with a name to thisspecification in the presence of depression extended from the inner tothe two subscribing witnesses.

outer periphery, the bearing-surface of one ISAAC BENJAMIN SEELEY. 5side being unbroken or continuous from the Witnesses:

opposite sides of the channel, while the op- SAMUEL K. GOODALE,

posite bearing-surface is corrugated. HANNAH GRAFF.

